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Nature means Necessity.

Philip James Bailey

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Philip James Bailey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 22
Died: 1902
Died: September 6
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P. J. Bailey
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
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Every believer is God's miracle.
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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Imagination is the air of mind.
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
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Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.
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Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
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Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.
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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.
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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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